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Source: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11420/congress-child-terrorists
Palestinians Encourage the Use of Child Terrorists
(Gatestone Institute) Alan M. Dershowitz - On Nov. 14, ten members of Congress called on the State Department to "prevent United States tax dollars from supporting the Israeli military's ongoing detention and mistreatment of Palestinian children." Yet it is well established that Palestinian terrorist leaders often use teenagers to commit acts of terror on Israeli civilians because they know that the Israeli legal system treats child terrorists more leniently. In the most recent spate of attacks, children as young as 13 have stabbed Israelis with scissors, screwdrivers and knives with the aim of inflicting maximum harm. Knesset Member Anat Berko has noted: "To those who are murdered with a knife in the heart it does not matter if the child is 12 or 15. We've witnessed numerous cases where 11-year-old children were suicide bombers." If children as young as 13 or 14 were roaming the streets of New York stabbing elderly women as they shopped at the supermarket or waited at a bus stop, would these members of Congress protest the apprehension and prosecution of the perpetrators? Of course not. No country in the world would tolerate terror in its cities, regardless of the age of the terrorists. The writer is professor of law, emeritus, at Harvard Law School.